by Chris Rohmann | Apr 2, 2010 | Stage
“This goes out to those who don’t get a chanceTo raise their voices ’cause of the problems we have.We’ve been held back, we can’t let that go on.Now it’s time for us to speak outLet them know who we areAnd show them where we...
by James Heflin | Apr 8, 2010 | Stage
No matter the time of day, watch an old Mystery Science Theater 3,000 episode and it feels like the middle of the night. The show was set primarily on the Satellite of Love, an awkward-looking bone of a spaceship, where Joel Robinson (series creator Joel Hodgson) and...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 8, 2010 | Stage
A lot of us conceive of Western Massachusetts in terms of the cozy, college-crammed, latte-happy Valley. But the Real World is nearer than we like to think, and it’s alive and well in the neighboring hilltowns. Or maybe not all that well, judging from Lucy...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 9, 2010 | Stage
Back in the day, before Andrew Lloyd Webber got lush, he and the under-appreciated Tim Rice wrote a tuneful rock opera with the cheeky title Jesus Christ, Superstar. It had all the life-and-death anguish, impassioned arias and massed choristers of grand opera, set to...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 15, 2010 | Stage
One is considered Shakespeare’s most “masculine” play. The other takes place in two largely female domains: feminist academia and the minimum-wage workplace. This weekend, those contradictory worlds clash in two productions on area campuses, both of...
